Tray



Oct. 17, 1944. o. E. NABHOLZ TRAY Filed April 14; 1943 INVENTOR.

ORV/ f. NAB/ 0L2 Patented Oct. 17, 1944 r Y I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TRAY Orvie E. Nabholz, Shellsburg, Iowa, assignor to Le Febure Corporation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a corporation of Iowa Application April 14, 1943, Serial No. 482,955

, 2 Claims. (01. 129 1c) This invention relates to trays and the like, showing the rail in its intermediate extended and has particular relation to a record tray. position, and

It has become more and more the custom, in Figure 4 i a fr en y v w h win he bookkeeping and the like, to utilize loose ledger rail in its fully extended and dropped position. sheets for each account, and in posting and'sort- 6 Referring HOW to e d ing accounts it is desirable that ready access .A tray, constructed according to a preferred to the d v dual sheets may be had and th t embodiment of my invention, employs a base or means be provided for Staggering or omsetting bottom member Ill, a front end member H, and the sheets, inserting memoranda between sheets, a rear end member In Order to conserve or inserting or removing the sheets from the file strategic materials these m m may e of or tray with a minimum of effort, wood. They are preferably JOll'led by means of It is one of t bje t of my invention to brackets as illustrated at l3. In the type of tray vide a tray suitable for the filing of ledger sheets here shown, I have ted a locking comand the like, provided with means whereby the pressor plate which is pivotahy engaged to ledger sheets may be off-set or staggered with rethe member by means of the hmge at and lation to one another, or removed, or for accommovable compressor plate which is Secured modating difi nt Sizes of sheets to a bracket l8 which in turn rides on a rod l9 Another object of my. invention is to provide m grohve h the base 22 h a tray of the above character which uses a minih. Includes a ran h h W m mum of critical materials and which is adapted h of Wood and pair of l exfor this purpose tending rail arms 23 and 24. The rail arms 23 and 2:2; ar received in brackets 26 which are sestln another oblect of the Invention Is to cured to the inner surfaces of the end members vlde tray. havmg an adlustthe slfle mu ht H and I2. These brackets consist of plates so may be adJusted and locked 1n an inner position to confine the ledger sheets and the like in closed formed as to provlde- Slots eXten-dmg the??- position and which may be extended to permit through for the reception of the l1nks or side the sheets to be pulled out in staggered osition arms 23 and These plates thus affiord gmdes or which may be withdrawn to its fullest extent and supp-arts for side arms and inasmuch as to drop down so that sheets may be readily rethe hestncted portlons 9f the brackets are 9-4pmoved from the tray or Sheets such as checks :m proximately rectangular in section and form with the walls of the members H and I2 a short of g h mvolces a hke may be slot for the reception of the arms 23 and 24, the stuffed f tray lhherted m from of the arms will be held in approximately horizontal sheet on Whlch a notatlon 15 t0 be f position whether they are in the locked position Other and further features and obJects of the or at semi extended position The brackets 25 invention will be more apparent to those skilled are secured t0 the end members H and |2 by in the art upon a consideration of the accom means of screws 28, and another screw or pin at panying drawing and following Specification 29 passes through the slots 3i in the side arms wherein is disclosed a single exemplary embodi- 2 and 24 ment of the invention, with the understanding, The upper edges f the slots 3 are provided w ver, hat such ch n s m y be d erein with notches 32 at intermediate points along the as fall Within t S pe of the pp Claims, arms, and a second notch at 33 adjacent the rail without departing from the spirit of the inven- 22. When the rail is in the intermediate posit tion, illustrated in Figure 3, the notch 32 drops In said drawing: 4-5 over the pin 29 and holds the arm in this in- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a tray contermediate position. The same is true when the structed according to one embodiment of my inrail is positioned in its inner or locked position, vention, and showing the side rail in its interin which case the notch 33 drops over the pin 29. mediate extended position. However, when the rail is drawn outwardly Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in perspective to its fully extended position, the arm no longer showing the connection between the end memprojects into the rectangular slot of the bracket bers of the tray and the side rail as they appear 26 and the bracket is cut away, as indicated at with the side rail in fully retracted or locked po- 50 that t e arm p t 0n t p 9 and iti permits the rail to drop down to the position Figure 3 is a fragmentary view in perspective shown in Figure 4. In this position of the rail,

of course, papers may be readily withdrawn from the file and inserted therein without interference by the side rail.

In use, when the tray is being used the rail is usually withdrawn to the intermediate position, shown in Figure 3. When it is desirable to withdraw papers from the tray, the rail is dropped to the position shown in Figure 4, and when the tray is not in use, the papers are preferably locked by pushing the rail to its inner or locked position, as illustrated in Figure 2.

Although I have described a specific embodiment of my invention, it is apparent that modifications thereof may be made by those skilled in the art. Such modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a tray of the class described, upstanding front and rear end members, a side rail having arms engaged on the end members for in and out sliding and pivotal movement, means for engaging the side arms to the end members including brackets having slots for receiving the side arms and the side arms having slots, the brackets having pins for engagement in the arm slots, locking means on the side arms including notches along the upper edges of the slots for locking the side arms in one or more positions, and means including a cut-away portion of each of the brackets, for mounting the side arms in the brackets so that the side arms are free to pivot when the side arms are in full extended position.

2. In a tray of the class described including a base and upstanding front and rear members, brackets on the inner faces of the front and rear members having horizontally extending slots therein for the reception of side arms of a side rail, a side rail having slotted side arms received within the slots of the brackets, and the upper edges of the slots of the side rails being notched intermediate their length and adjacent the rail, and each bracket having a pin adapted to extend across the slot of the adjacent side arm of the rail, the pin being so positioned that with the rail extended to an intermediate position the slot drops down over the pin to thus lock the rail, and means including a cut-away portion of each bracket for mounting the rail so that it is free to pivot downward when in its extended position.

ORVIE E. NABHO-LZ. 

